"King Chuang!" The little leader of the battle ran to the place where the leaders watched the battle, and after saluting with his fists, he was about to complain that the ladder was not built strongly, so that the success was lost, and the words of the big leader Wang Jiayin made him consciously swallow the words that had reached his lips.

"Commander, this ladder is well made."

Completely different from the views of the small leader of the battle and the leader of the homeless people, the big leader Wang Jiayin praised the ladder, in his eyes, this hastily built ladder does look simple, but it can be used for such a long time, it is already very good.

"Yes, the general should be credited." Gao Yingxiang is also very satisfied, although the first ladder is broken, but everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as there is the first one, I believe that the second and third will soon be built, with the ladder, you can give full play to the advantages of their large number of people, and continue to attack the city.

"The big leader, the king, the two of them have praised it, and the last general is ashamed." Li Zicheng hurriedly replied.

Although this ladder was not made by his own hands, it was formed under his guidance, after watching the battle just now, he also knew the weakness of the ladder, "This ladder seems to need to be improved, I will build it again, please rest assured that the big boss and King Chuang, the wood is being cut and prepared, no later than tomorrow morning, three brand new ladders will be transported here." ”

"Then it will be more troublesome for the three brothers Huang Hu and Cao Cao." Wang Jiayin and Gao Yingxiang nodded.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, old and cunning, were unwilling to come to the attack site under the pretext of cutting down trees and building ladders.

Li Zicheng clenched his fists and said goodbye, and was about to leave alone, when he saw the little leader of the battle next to Gao Yingxiang, he stopped and said, "This brother is also here, that's just right, I don't have to go to you again, when I use the ladder to build the city wall tomorrow, let them not build the wall battlement like today, just a little lower, and don't let the other party push down the ladder." ”

Today, the other party obviously did not do his best, Li Zicheng can naturally see that in addition to boiling water, falling rocks and beating trees are useless, and the ladder that can be pushed by reaching out is ignored, which is all clear evidence.

Let the homeless people climb up to fight, it is estimated that there is also some meaning of training, but today do not use these tricks, it does not mean that you will not use it in the future, you can prevent it, or take precautions in advance, the ladder is so high, it is too amateurish, completely send your own lifeblood to the other party's hands, people only need to stretch out their hands, they can push down the ladder, if they don't do well, the ladder will be broken, so that his efforts are in vain.

"Did you hear that?" Gao Yingxiang asked loudly on the side.

"Hear me, King Chuang." The little leader first replied to Gao Yingxiang's words, and then thanked Li Zicheng, "Thank you for your advice, the little general knows." ”

"Early tomorrow morning, as soon as the three ladders arrive, they will begin to attack the city, and then go and find more homeless people, so that they can attack day and night." Gao Yingxiang instructed the little leader.

The little boss looked embarrassed, it was not a problem to drive the homeless people to attack the city, but it was a little difficult to keep going day and night, "King Chuang, you don't know these homeless, even if you light torches at night, you can't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, and you still have to let them attack the city, isn't it..."

"They can't see it, what does it have to do with us?" Before the little leader finished speaking, he was interrupted by Gao Yingxiang, "Our battle is that there are many people, and the consumption can also consume the people in the mountains to death, otherwise why can we conquer such a dangerous pass?" ”

"Yes, King Chuang." The little boss was helpless, and Nuo Nuo responded.

As for Li Zicheng, he had already gone far away when the two of them were talking, and it was not his turn to intervene in the siege of the city for the time being.

......

Zhangjiakou, in the fort, the Fan family's house.

The caravan of the eight major grain merchants had just returned to Zhangjiakou, and after a simple reception, Fan Xuan took Fan Ke, the person in charge of the Fan family's trip to Liaodong, that is, his brother of the same clan, to the study.

"Fan Ke, is the Great Khan still satisfied with this trip to Liaodong?" Fan Xuan waved his hand and asked the servant to retreat, and asked after only his two brothers were in the study.

"The Great Khan was very satisfied, and said that our food had saved them from emergencies, and that we had rewarded them with some gold and silver." Fan Ke said happily that Huang Taiji did not reward much gold and silver, and the key was to reflect the importance and grace he attached to them.

Fan Xuan nodded, a fire in Shengjing burned the grain looted before the post-Jin Dynasty, and they were indeed sending charcoal in the snow this time.

"How are the Mongolian Tartars, are they honest?" Fan Xuan asked.

"Needless to say, eldest brother, after being cleaned up like this by Dolgonbele, they were so well-behaved that they didn't even dare to pay back the price when they bought our grain." Fan Ke was a little proud.

"But why do I think that the cattle and sheep you brought back this time are a lot less?" Fan Xuan raised the tea bowl and asked slowly taking a sip of tea.

After Dolgon's extortion and purge, the Mongolian tribes were in short supply of gold and silver, and the only ones that could exchange grain for livestock such as cattle, horses and sheep were the eight major grain merchants who bought cattle and sheep at low prices with grain on the grassland, and after returning to the customs, they could sell them at a high price and make huge profits.

The grain, green salt and other things they transported this time, in addition to meeting the needs of Houjin, the rest were to be traded with Mongolia, and Fan Xuan still had a rough idea of how many cattle and sheep they could exchange for.

"Big brother is really as wise as a torch." Fan Ke patted the sycophants first, "There are indeed fewer livestock, and the grain has not run out." ”

"Why is that?" Fan Xuan was surprised, it shouldn't be, these Mongolian people have always been short of food, and when they used to deal with them, they could be called food when they saw it, after all, they couldn't stand eating meat and milk every day.

After being rectified by Dolgon this time, there should be even more food shortage, how could it be so unhelpful.

"Korqin, Haraqin, and Nekhalkha, these tribes close to Dajin are quite normal, and when they see us, they all exchange food without saying a word." Fan Ke coughed lightly, and then said, "But the tribes of all sizes in Sunit are a little strange, they don't seem to be too interested in our appearance, they are not active in changing food, and they think that our grain prices are high, but they don't dare to say it." ”

"Don't sell it, what the hell is going on?" Fan Xuan didn't have the patience to listen to him here, so he asked bluntly.

Fan Ke was a little embarrassed, "That's the case, eldest brother, I sent someone to inquire, and the news I got was that the Sunit departments were not short of food." ”

"Impossible." Fan Xuan didn't think about it, and blurted out.

There is no shortage of food in the outer departments, and even if there are small and medium-sized caravans selling grain to them, the gap is still huge, and the normal performance of the other departments speaks for itself, how can Sunit be an exception.

Also, do you think their food is expensive?

Their eight major grain merchants have a large amount of grain and abundant funds, and they have always sold cheaper than other small and medium-sized merchants outside Cyprus, so how can they be expensive?